Titanfall 2 – FPS Cap Quick Fix
Titanfall 2 has had a sudden resurgence in popularity after the matchmaking services and DDOS-ing issues were fixed by Respawn. With a bunch of people coming back to the game, many players are noticing the game feeling a little bit weird – not very smooth or responsive.
The reason for these issues is the forced 144 FPS cap that negatively affects your aim and enjoyment of the game if you have a 240+ Hz screen. There is however a very simple fix to this issue that allows you to play at uncapped/custom FPS caps.
FPS Cap Fix
The way you disable the 144 FPS forced cap in Titanfall 2 is by enabling some type of V-Sync in the game menu while having it disabled in your GPU driver panel. This is how I did it for my NVIDIA GPU:
- Open up NVPanel and go to the 3D Settings tab – scroll all the way down and make sure V-Sync is disabled
- In the same panel go to Program Settings select Titanfall 2 and set a custom frame rate cap
- Open Titanfall 2 and enable V-Sync in the video settings
- Use any monitoring software with an FPS readout like RTSS or Presentmon to confirm your game is now running the correct FPS cap
It is important to use a tool that shows your frametime graph so you can confirm it is a smooth line which would mean the FPS cap is working properly.
This fix is essential if you are running G-Sync or any other VRR technology on your monitor, or if you want to use an FPS cap that is 2x your refresh rate for a smooth image with no tearing. If you want to run uncapped FPS altogether there is bad news since every time I tested with no FPS cap, the frame times were unstable making the game unplayable.
Things to Note
While this simple fix allows you to run Titanfall 2 at higher FPS (this should have worked by default in 2023 by the way Respawn) you need to be careful of your CPU and GPU temperatures since now you are putting a bigger load on your components.
Make sure your machine is properly cooled and you should be fine.